Binder



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Patented Oct. 29, 1929 PATENT FFICE LOUIS A. PHILLIPS, OF TENAFLY, NEWJERSEY BINDER Application fi1ed July 2,

The present invention relates to a hanger in the form of a semi-ringbinder by means of which one or a plurality of loose leaves, such as theleaves of a calendar or cards bearing tabulations, charts and the like,may be hung upon a wall for ready reference, an object of the inventionbeing to provide a suspension device of the character described on whichloose leaves may be quickly bound and which is so constructed as topermit the leaves being conveniently turned over.

A further object of the invention is to form the device preferably froma single piece of wire with its leaf engaging or binding portions sorelatively arranged and cooperating in such manner as to permit theleaves being readily bound and, when desired, removed from the binderwithout danger of being torn or otherwise mutilated.

And, a still further object of the invention is the provision, in abinder made in one piece from spring wire, of interlocking means forpreventing removal of the bound leaves until manual disengagement ofsuch locking means has been effected.

To these and other ends the invention consists of a suspension binderconstruction as will be fully set forth in the following description andparticularly defined in the ap pended claims.

The accompanying drawings illustrating the invention are as follows:

Fig. 1 is aview in front elevation of the binder with leaves thereon;

Fig. 2 is a similar view in rear elevation; and

Fig. 3 is an end view of the device as shown in Figs. 1 and 2 with aportion of the leaves in section on line 33, Fig. 1.

In the drawings similar reference numerals refer to similar partsthroughout the several views.

The binder comprises, preferably, a single piece of spring wire which atpoints 1 and 2, unequal distances from their respective ends, is bentlaterally to form substantially semi-ring binding portions 3 and 4projecting forwardly from a horizontal bar portion 5 formed at itscenter with an upwardly-extending loop 6 adapted to engage over a 1928.Serial No. 289,690.

nail 7 or like support projecting from a side wall indicated at 8.

The free end of the curved or binding portion 3 is formed in the planeof such portion with an eye 9, and the wire at a point 10 in thesimilarly curved binding portion 4 is bent at right angles to provide abottom or looking bar 11 lying both substantially parallel to and in theplane of the top bar 5, the free end of the bar portion 11 normallyextending through the eye 9. To this end the bar 11 is made longer thanthe bar 5, and the loop 6 affords flexibility to the bar 5 which in turngives the binder frame the necessary resiliency to spread the members 3and 4 relatively apart to permit engagement and disengagement of theinterlocking members, that is, the free end of the bar 11 and the eye 9.

Leaves or cards loosely bound and suspended by the binder are indicatedat 12 and have perforations 13, 13 adjacent one edge of sufiicientdiameter to receive the eye 9, or other bar engaging formation of thewire on the free end of the curved portion 3. These leaves or cards 12are suspended on the binding portions 3 and 4 by first inserting thelocking bar 11 through a perforation 13 of one or a plurality of leaves,swinging the binder substantially 90 about the U point 10 as a center,inserting the eye 9 through the other perforation 13, and then spreadingthe binding portions 3 and 4 relatively apart to permit engagement ofthe end of the bar 11 through the eye 9, the resiliency of the framereturning the parts to normal positions. Thus, the leaves 12 areremovably suspended on the semi-ring portions 3 and 4 and may beseparately turned over by raising them to the dotted line position 14indi cated for one of the leaves.

From the foregoing it will be observed that I have provided a suspensionbinder of novel, simple, inexpensive and strong construction; that itcomprises a single piece of spring wire bent to form a frame includingsemi-ring binding portions connected at the top by a bar portion madeflexible by providing a loop therein, which also serves as means forhanging the binder on a nail or like support, and

at the bottom by a locking bar extending across the rear face of thebound leaves, the connection of this bar With one of the bindingportions being separable, that is, the binder frame at one corner isbreakable to permit placing the leaves on and removing them from thebinder; and, that the flexibility of the top bar gives sufficientresiliency to the binder frame to permit engagement and disengagement ofthe co-operating locking parts which, in this instance, are theinflexible bottom bar 11 and the eye 9 through which the free end ofsuch bar projects.

What I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:I

1. A binder of the character described comprising a single piece ofspring wire bent laterally at points of unequal distance from its endsto form two semi-ring binding members and a resilient cross barconnecting said members, a loop formed in the said cross bar, an eyeformed on the free end of one binding member. and a locking barextending integrally from the corresponding end of the other. bindingmember, the free end of the said locking bar being slidable through saideye in interlocking engagement.

2. The combination with a leaf having perforations adjacent one edge, ofa suspension binder therefor comprising a spring wire bent intermediateits ends to form a top bar and two laterally turned semi-ring bindingmembers, an eye on the free end of one binding member, a locking barextending from the corresponding end of the other binding member, saidlatter bar being inserted through one of said perforations to suspendthe leaf on one of the binding members, and said eye being insertedthrough another perforation to suspend the leaf'on the other bindingmember, and a loop formed in said cross bar as a means for suspendingthe binder on a projection and also as means giving flexibility to thebinder to permit engagement and disengagement of the free end of thelook-- ing bar with said eye.

8. A suspension binder, of the character and for the purpose described,formed of spring wire and comprising a top bar, semiring bindingportions bent laterally from said bar, one of said binding portionsterminating in a bottom bar parallel to and in substantially the planeof the top bar, the other binding portion terminating in a part formedto releasabl engage in looking relation the free end of said bottom bar,and a loop formed in said top bar as a suspension means for the binderand to give flexibility to the binder, as and for the purpose set forth.

4. A binder of the character described comprising a single piece ofspring wire bent laterally at points of unequal distance from its endsto form two semi-ring binding members and a cross-bar connecting saidmembers, an eye formed on the free end of one binding member, and alocking bar extending integrally from the corresponding end of the otherbinding member, the free end of the said locking bar being slidablethrough said eye in interlocking engagement, the said cross-bar beingflexible to permit the necessary spring action for engagement anddisengagement of the interlocking parts.

5. A binder of the character described comprising a single piece ofspring wire bent laterally at points of unequal distance from its endsto form two semi-ring binding members, and a cross bar connecting saidmembers, an eye formed on the free end of one binding member, and alocking bar extending from the corresponding end of the other bindingmember, the free end of the said locking bar being slidable through saideye in interlocking engagement. the said cross bar having a loop formedtherein, the said loop providing means for suspending the binder on aprojection, and also providing means whereby such bar is made flexibleto permit the necessary spring action for engagement and disengagementof the interlocking parts.

6. A binder of the character described comprising a single piece ofspring wire bent to form two parallel binding members, and two spacedbars connecting said members, one of the said bars being relativelyflexible and the other relatively inflexible, the connection of the saidinflexible bar with one of said binding members being separable.

L. A. PHILLIPS.

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